with them he formed a kind of religious community; observing from this time till his death, the following

order of life :

They all rose at four in the morning, and employed one hour in private prayer. They recited together the hours of the divine office; and Mr Davies every day said Mass, with many tears which, though he strove to conceal them, he was not able, his heart being so brimful on these occasions. After Mass, they sang together the anthem, "O Sacrum Convivium," and then applied themselves to study. After meals they spent half an hour in reading the "Imitation of Christ," and other spiritual books. Then Mr Davies entertained them with discourses upon what they had read, or the lives of the saints. Then they recited the litanies of the Blessed Virgin, and the remainder of the evening was spent in study and prayer; and at night they recited together the litany of the saints, made their examination of conscience, and so went to rest. Twice in the week they confessed, and they communicated on all Sundays and holidays. Thus they spent the last six months of their stay in the Castle of Beaumaris. All this time, the holy Confessor, not content with the hardships. and mortifications incident to imprisonment, wore, day and night, a rough penitential hair-shirt, woven like a net, which he concealed a long time, but, a little before his death, privately gave, as a token of his love, to one of his companions.

Again the assizes were held at Beaumaris, 1593. and Mr Davies was brought once more to the bar. The judges sought to shake his constancy by offering him, not pardon only, but a promise of probable promotion, if he would consent to go once to the Protestant church. But the good man was steadfast in his adhesion to his own Church and faith, and with a loud voice and cheerful countenance "blessed the Lord that he was now to be so happy as to shed his blood for the love of His Divine Majesty."

Some days passed before the sentence could be carried out, for the people had conceived so great a respect for the sanctity of Mr Davies, that not a man in the town would furnish, for love or money, anything necessary for that purpose; such as ladder, rope, wood, and caldron; much less could any one be found there who could be prevailed on to do the hangman's office; so that the sheriff was obliged to hire two fellows from a distant place to undertake the business, that if one failed, the other might perform the office; who, though they endeavoured to conceal the object of their arrival, yet, being suspected by the people, were shut out of every house they came to, and were pelted by the boys with stones.

Again an offer was made to the martyr by some gentlemen to rescue him out of the hands of the officers, on the morning designed for the butchery; but he earnestly entreated them "for the love of Jesus Christ, not to think of any such enterprise,

which would expose themselves to so great a danger, and do him no service."

Brought out to the hurdle on the morning of the 21st of July, and passing before the window where his companions of so many months of imprisonment stood to take their last farewell of their devoted priest and confessor, he turned towards them with a smiling countenance, and gave them his last benediction, which they received on their knees, with many tears; for which he rebuked them as unreasonable, since he was going to be delivered from all his sufferings, and to enter into the joy of his Lord.

On addressing the people at the gallows, who stood bareheaded to hear him, the sheriff stopped him, saying, he had not come there to preach, but to die.

Submitting to the orders, he simply made a short profession of his faith, and prayed that his innocent blood might not be laid to the charge of that island, &c.; then taking the rope, he kissed it, saying, "Thy yoke, O Lord, is sweet, and Thy burthen is light."

Cut down while yet living, the usual butchery was performed, and his clothes, dyed in his blood, were purchased by his companions; and the hangman, falling not long after into the hands of justice for some crime, declared at the gallows that, "of all he had done in his life, nothing troubled his conscience so much as having imbrued his hands in the blood of so holy a man;" confessing that "God

had justly on that account brought him to suffer so shameful a death."

As to Mr Fulk, who had caused Mr Davies to be apprehended, from being a rich man, in a year's time afterwards he was obliged to sell all his substance, and having neither money nor credit, and despised by all, he privately withdrew, and was heard of in his former place no more. The constable also, who had apprehended the martyr, was seized immediately afterwards with an inflammation of the great toe of the right foot, accompanied with violent pain; which spread over all his right side, and, in spite of the endeavours of the surgeons, corrupted the whole body, which emitted so loathsome a stench, insupportable to himself as to others, till death supervened and ended his sufferings, so far as his present existence was concerned. Thus was most remarkably fulfilled the words of the royal Psalmist, "He ordaineth His arrows against the persecutors."

Mr Davies suffered on the 21st of July 1593, after about sixteen months' imprisonment.

What afterwards became of three of his youthful companions we cannot tell; but the youngest was put into the hands of a country schoolmaster, to be whipped into a conformity with the Church as by law established; but he found means to escape over into Ireland, where, meeting with a young gentleman, his former schoolfellow, he persuaded him to be reconciled to the Roman obedience; and they went over into Spain, to the college of Valladolid,

where they were living at the time the Bishop of Tarrasona was writing his account of Mr Davies' martyrdom, viz., in 1598. Bishop Yepez gives an account of his sufferings in his "History of the Persecution," 1. 5, c. 8, from the relation of one of his companions and fellow-prisoners. Also the story is recorded in the "Douay Diary," and in Challoner's "Memoirs of Missionary Priests."

HENRY WALPOLE, priest, was born of an ancient family in Norfolk, and was the eldest of many sons of his pious Roman Catholic parents. Educated partly at Cambridge, partly at Oxford, he was sent to London to study the law, and took chambers in Gray's-inn for that purpose.

In the meantime he was a great reader of controversy, by which he became confirmed in his religious faith, and gained proselytes to it-the sweetness of his temper contributing to his success in his discussions.

In fine, he incurred the displeasure of the government, and he went abroad to consecrate himself still more closely to the service of God. He went to Rheims, according to the "Douay Journal," on the 7th of July 1582. Here he has this eulogium : "7° die Julij ex Anglia ad nos venit D. Henricus Walpole, vir discretus, gravis et pius." He afterwards went to Rome, and subsequently entered the "Society of Jesus." Three of his brothers followed his example, and a fourth, to secure his